Live Fast Burn Slow | Artist Statement

LIVE FAST BURN SLOW

The latest collection from Beery Method explores social commentary on the exploits of glorified sub cultures within global society, specifically the US. The return of Beery’s dark- cartoon Hobo Eaters: this second installment brings back the cartoon character forms as the embodiment of society’s invasive evils. Each character represents a stereotype found within the sub genres of sociological and contemporary ethnological entrapments. Beery seeks to create a collection rich with candy-pop death-heads attributed to the heedless fast-pace of sin and over indulgence of our world. The collection is filled with decomposing soul and subliminally scrutinizes celebrated American nefariousness that underpins the vicious cycles idolized by a non-stop civilization.

Each piece exploits villains as heroes in a refreshingly lampoon-antagonistic approach through characters, vehicles, and symbology. The anthology explores everything sinister from political corruption, violence, racism, male aggression, commercialism, addiction, war, gambling and deb to gangsterism, corporate greed, sex, speed, and news media. The characters represented are ammunition for ironical socialistic retaliation through anti-hero heroism.

Live Fast Burn Slow takes aim at the facets of human culture which is revered as popular but in world terms are the very pin holes inevitably leaking any altruistic emotion left in the sludge filled fuel tanks of civility. – Beery